Beardo Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 People in Spain have been warned to take precautions against a fatal disease that has now reached Western Europe. Hikers, farm workers and hospital staff could all be at risk of catching the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), which causes diarrhoea, vomiting and heavy bleeding. Spread by ticks, CCHF is fatal for up to 30 per cent of those who catch it. Last month, two people in Spain caught the disease – the first instance of local transmission of CCFH in Western Europe. In its report on the two cases, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Solna, Sweden, concluded that the CCHF virus was most probably brought to Spain by birds migrating from Morocco or other areas of North Africa. Virus-carrying ticks may have hitched a ride on these birds, and then transferred to farm and wild animals in Spain. full story https://www.newscientist.com/article/2105953-travellers-warned-of-fatal-tick-borne-disease-in-western-europe/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1474380056 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenlivet Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I've got a Czech friend who almost died from a tick bite. 3 months in hospital, was touch and go for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 My mrs works with a woman just told she's got lymes disease. She was getting partial paralysis. She went back to Poland as the nhs couldn't find out what was wrong . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted September 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 it's scary how on the up Lymes is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 As the saying goes as quick as they find a cure for something another thing will come along and take its place but then we would not want to live forever would we. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 As the saying goes as quick as they find a cure for something another thing will come along and take its place but then we would not want to live forever would we. Eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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